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[Article] Twenty Nine years and some months from now, the earth could be hit by 20 million tonnes of rock; an asteroid given the ominous moniker of “Apophis”. Oh dear.


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Present estimates give a particularly low probability of one chance in 45,000 of Apophis hitting the Earth at all, but really, when millions of lives are potentially on the line, low odds are not good enough..Let’s look at Apophis in a little more depth:It has 20 million tonnes of mass. It is 250...
This article was published Friday, 2 March, 2007 by AFP
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